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Environmental (Dis)Locations — a conference with religious imagination exploring environmental justice and climate change — April 8-10, 2010 at Yale University. The conference is free and open to the public. You may purchase a Saturday lunch ticket for $10 separately. Please see the instructions on the registration form. Continue reading Environmental Dislocations | Yale Divinity School Perhaps nothing better symbolized the nation's overindulgent, often misguided, credit-backed pre-Great Recession consumerism than the Hummer. Appropriate then that it appears the Hummer will not survive the economic downtown. This is not good news, of course, for those working at Hummer plants in Louisiana and Indiana. Perhaps the plants can be retooled to produce hybrid vehicles – or the coming GM Volt electric car. via Big, bad and silly – so long, Hummer | The Day. The Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project had the kick off meeting Feb. 17, 2010, in Hartford. The Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc. (GNHCCC), together with over 30 partner organizations will develop and implement a state-wide, fuel-neutral effort that will deploy 183 alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) through incremental funding and provide fueling capability for 21 additional fleet vehicles and infrastructure necessary to directly support the vehicle deployments as part of the Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. Also see this story in the Register Citizen about an announcement from Gov. M. Jodi Rell: The Governor announced today that Connecticut has moved closer to those goals with the newly released preliminary recommendations from her Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Council that is examining ways the state can accommodate electric vehicles (EVs) through public policy, infrastructure and education. via Governor Rell announces electric vehicles are closer to coming to Connecticut – The Register Citizen. A group of young people, students at the Yale School of Medicine, have stepped forward to propose a path toward peace. The group’s goal is to organize an event on the New Haven Green April 25 for the purpose of bringing Muslim, Christian and Jewish intellectuals, artists and community members together to foster a stronger relationship between the inhabitants of the city. via BEACH: Yale’s future physicians say give peace a chance – The New Haven Register.
Ed Grant’s mission took hold in the 1960s. He died on Jan. 1 at the age of 87; the mission will continue. In that mission, Ed Grant made no distinction between the quest for a clean environment and organizing the grassroots to challenge power. via New Haven Independent | Freddie Fixer Passes. U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced a national initiative to address environmental justice challenges in 10 communities including Bridgeport, Connecticut. EPA has committed $1 million to this effort over the next two years. In Bridgeport, EPA will build on work that has already taken place to develop community capacity and engagement, identify a broad network of partnerships, and connect with the goals of the city government. Using this past work as a foundation, EPA plans to work collaboratively with a wide-range of stakeholders to develop projects focused on improving indoor air quality, increasing community capacity for green jobs, increasing recycling rates, and reducing asthma and toxics exposure. via EPA Announces Environmental Justice Showcase Communities. Continue reading Bridgeport among EPA’s ‘Environmental Justice Showcase Communities’ |
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